Working with Geofences

Geofences in Depot enable you to report on vehicle activity in geographic areas that are of interest for your business.

Geofences can help you to better understand your fleets’ utilisation, measure time spent in Depot, monitor time on the road, ensure safe speeds are maintained in high risk locations e.g., school zones and high crash areas, and help you fine-tune your off-road claims.

You can draw geofences on maps in:

Activity / Geofences

Reports / Daily Activity

Administration / Geofences

You can monitor your vehicles’ geofence visits in:

Reports / Geofence Activity

Reports / Daily Acitivity

Reports / Fleet Summary

TIP: A geofence should be at least 250 metres or 820 feet in diameter to be big enough for EROAD hardware units to detect activity in the geofence. The maximum area of a geofence is 25 square kilometres or 9.65 miles.

NOTE: Depot users with only the basic role can view but not create, edit or remove geofences. Some Unit Managers might not have access to the Geofence tab if the Allow Geofence Access checkbox under Roles and Permissions is disabled.

Creating Geofences

Perform the following steps to create a geofence.

Go to a map screen in Depot, for example in Activity / Geofences.

Zoom or pan the map to the area you would like to geofence.

NOTE: The address search functionality can help you locate any street address or point of interest on your map. Enter full or partial address information or a point of interest in the search box and select one of the suggestions listed.

Click the Draw Geofence tool located on the top left of the map .The mouse will change from an arrow to an arrow with a point.

Click on the map once to mark one point of the Geofence. Then release the mouse, move the mouse to the next place and click and release the mouse again.

Continue clicking, releasing and moving the mouse until you are ready to close the Geofence. Complex Geofences may require many points.

Double-click to close the Geofence. The Save New Geofence screen appears.

Enter a name and select the types you would like to apply to the Geofence e.g. Customer Site, Off-Road Area etc. Some types require additional information, find detailed info here.